How Zero Motorcycles builds the Tesla of two-wheelers in Silicon Valley
About 45 miles south of the Silicon Valley factory where Tesla Motors is building out the electric automobile industry one car at a time, Zero Motorcycles is..
Santa Cruz Tech Ecosystem
Mobile Ranger app-tour helps launch Santa Cruz Wharf into 21st century
by Julia Gaudinski Founder, Mobile Ranger It’s the dawn of the 1910s, and the many tentacled arms of national rail lines have wreaked havoc on ocean shipping..
Why Guy?
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat As you’ve read previously in Santa Cruz Tech Beat (here and here), Guy Kawasaki will be speaking in..
Powerslayer by Velvetwire featured at MoMA NYC for NYCxDESIGN
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat In honor of NYCxDESIGN (New York City’s official citywide celebration of design) the MoMA Design Store has..
Plantronics reports record revenues for fiscal year 2014
by Jennifer Pittman Santa Cruz Sentinel Company focuses on Unified Communications Although fourth quarter numbers were slightly down from a year ago, Santa..
Acclaimed game designer speaking at UCSC on Tue May 6
by Scott Rappaport UC Santa Cruz Game designer and producer Robin Hunicke will present a talk titled “Expanding Games” on Tuesday, May 6, beginning at..
Red Hat to acquire Inktank, a cloud storage company with UCSC roots
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz Inktank founder Sage Weil developed the company’s open-source Ceph data storage system as a computer science graduate..
TechRaising 2014: 48 Hours of Innovation, Ambition, and Collaboration
by Xochitl Rojas-Rocha Participants gather to make magic happen “You’re all here to make magic happen,” said Margaret Rosas in her welcoming speech at..
UCSC Baskin School of Engineering Dean Art Ramirez Steps Down
(Contributed by UC Santa Cruz) Ramirez will return to research Art Ramirez, who has served UC Santa Cruz as dean of engineering at the Baskin School of..
Guy Kawasaki – Touching Gold
by Julia Sinn Freelance writer, @juliarosette In order to create a great company you need certain values and they’re all present in Santa Cruz. “The..